Tuesday, May 11, 2010

From all the terminology created in the always-entertaining Game Threads sponsored by the Sons, this phrase might be a little difficult to understand for either the English or Spanish-speaking readers.

To understand it, it’s not necessary a literal translation. In Venezuela, “Rancho Ardiendo” is slang for two situations: a large family, which the mother is pregnant; or, applied to a baseball game, it means bases loaded.

“Rancho Ardiendo” started appearing on Game Threads around April-May 2008. Time has passed, so Sons and readers have modified the term, randomly in the spur of the moment (as we all live at the SoSG bar), according to some play or player: e.g “Rancho Caseando” means Casey Blake contributed to the bases loaded situation. Sky is the limit to the variations of “Rancho Ardiendo”.

As a reader, I’d like to think this blog is always in the other common use of “Rancho Ardiendo”: a large family of passionate Dodgers fans and new people always joining in.

If you'd like to contribute a SoSG Glossary entry, just email us with your entry and we'll try and post it. Thanks again karina!

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I really hate this time difference. And my apartment's complete lack of internet fast enough to watch a Dodger game and/or keep up with the comments in a game thread. I miss all you guys. I hope you'll be counting the days until June 5, when I'm finally back in the States. Not quite back in Los Angeles, but at most only two hours away from Pacific Coast time.

It's funny, Erin: last night, I started adjusting our post lineup to weight a little more heavily in the mornings, partially in order to address our readership caught in Europe through the end of the month...

You're missed as well. But the pictures look sweet! Too bad you'll miss ESB night (not to be confused with MSB night, where everyone dresses up like David Eckstein).

Looking at my post, to be clear I wasn't referring to any proverbial "xxx" situations. xxx was a mere placeholder, alas.

I think I used a version of the phrase over the weekend upon noticing the kitchen sink was full of dishes, saying "Rancho Sinkiendo" or something like that. I've also grown fond of using it to indicate a fridge fully stocked with beer: Rancho Drunkiendo.